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Call for Internet Death Penalty: Burstnet/Hostnoc
The charges:
Burstnet have deliberately facilitated abuse of the Internet.
Burstnet have been given every opportunity to remove
their spammers, and have failed to take advantage of those
opportunities.
Burstnet have repeatedly lied to the Internet about their
spammers.
Burstnet have aided and abetted their spammers by listwashing
and have thus further abused innocent members of the Internet
by handing the addresses of complainers over to spammers.
Burstnet have threatened members of the Internet who requested
that Burstnet conform to minimal acceptable standards of behaviour.
Burstnet claim not to be able to control their own network.
Burstnet have continued to profit from the abuse of the Internet,
to this very day. (This includes continuing to host the
well-known, block-on-sight spammers of Azoogle.)
Burstnet have only taken token action against spammers, and then
only in response to widespread DNSBL listing of their network.
They have refused to be pro-active, have refused to heed warnings
about spammers signing up for their services, and refused to
remove known spammers.
Burstnet have, by their irresponsible conduct, willfully deprived
their legitimate customers of the services that they paid for.
Burstnet have deliberately aided and abetted this ongoing abuse
of the entire Internet.
Burstnet have done all this despite being repeatedly told that
it is unacceptable behaviour, and being repeatedly asked to stop.
The evidence:
Copious evidence substantiating all of the above may be found here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=bu...
and here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=ho...
and here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=az...
and here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=az...
and here:
http://www.spews.org/html/S421.html
and here:
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/spammers.lasso?-database=spammers.db&-l...
and here:
http://www.aboutspam.com/spamhaus.php
and here:
http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-geeks/2003-January/004046.html
among many other places. See also the following quotes:
Shawn Arcus admits supporting the Azoogle spammers:
"We know they [azoogle] are legit, because our staff
wrote the actual software their service runs on."
--- Shawn Arcus, CEO of Burstnet.
Shawn Arcus defends his spam-friendly operation:
"SPEWS is sorely mistaken if they think they can change
the operations of the largest web hosting companies in
the world."
--- Shawn Arcus, CEO of Burstnet.
Eric D. Jarman abuses and insults a victim of Burstnet's abuse:
"Listen pal, I don't dare assume to read your mind. I
do not have time for your stupid games. There are many
people: that receive junk mail unsolicited. They are many
people; that forget that receiving commerical email is
not against the law if they requested it."
--- Eric D. Jarman, "Network Abuse", Burstnet.
Shawn Arcus pleads incompetence as a defence:
"We do not control what users/domains our dedicated server
clients set up on their leased machines. We can kick off
a spammer from one machine, and he may appear the next
week on a complately different client's machine. We have
no control over that, and there is no way we possibly
could control that."
--- Shawn Arcus, CEO of Burstnet.
Shawn Arcus refuses to address the Azoogle issue and looks for "incentives"
to remove spammers:
"We have spent 2-3 months now cleaning up our network,
and have removed a ton of spammers/abusers. Every
single listing in SPEWS S421 has been removed and/or
dealt with besides Azoogle. And yet, SPEWS has not
updated/delisted/removed any of the records. What
incentive do we have to continue to deal with such,
or to work towards a resolution on the Azoogle issue?"
--- Shawn Arcus, CEO of Burstnet.
Other self-incriminating quotes may be found at the URIs
referenced above.
The verdict:
There is no need or reason to tolerate the behaviour of rogue
ISPs such as Burstnet, who have engaged in long-term, large-scale
abuse of the entire Internet. There is therefore no longer any
reason for the Internet to accept Burstnet traffic, nor send any.
There is, however, need and reason for the civilised portion
of the Internet to protect itself from the abuse which Burstnet
knowingly and directly facilitates for profit.
The sentence:
I therefore call for the null-routing of all IP space
assigned to Burstnet starting at 1200 UTC on 10 July 2003.
This null-routing shall be extended to any IP address or IP
block found to be allocated for Burstnet after that time,
and shall continue until all IP space controlled by Burstnet is
returned to ARIN for reallocation.
These blocks include:
CIDR NetHandle NetName
66.96.192.0/18 NET-66-96-192-0-1 HOSTNOC
66.197.128.0/17 NET-66-197-128-0-1 HOSTNOC-2BLK
64.191.0.0/17 NET-64-191-0-0-1 HOSTNOC-3BLK
Why this is anonymous:
First, because this statement should stand or fall on its own
merits, and that of the referenced evidence. Who I am, or am not,
is unimportant and irrelevant.
Second, Burstnet's past history clearly indicates a strong
preference for avoiding issues and focusing instead on those
who have highlighted those issues. This focus usually consists
of abuse, insults, and other attacks (see quote above from
the aptly-named Burstnet "abuse" personnel). I decline to
furnish Burstnet with the opportunity to distract attention
from their own conduct.
Addendum 1:
The burst.blackholes.us DNS zone may be useful to those wishing to
participate in this IDP. See http://www.blackholes.us.
Addendum 2:
Eric Jarman is apparently no longer employed by Burstnet, and has
subsequently apologized for his comments quoted above.
Addendum 3:
Clarification: it is the intention that this should be permanent.
Burstnet have handsomely profited, for many years, from large-scale abuse
of the entire Internet, and have already exhausted all of their chances
to stop the abuse, publicly apologize for the abuse, and disgorge all of
their ill-gotten income from the abuse. (They have been given chance after
chance after chance after chance to do this, and they have done nothing.)
Intead, they have actively aided and abetted the abuse, and continued to
reap the profits made from it. They have compounded this by repeatedly
lying to and insulting the same community that they have abused.
They have thus exhausted their supply of chances, and the Internet
community need not extend them any more. Burstnet's future actions, if
any, are irrelevant: their past actions are already constitute more than
sufficient basis to disallow all Burstnet traffic from this day forward.
Therefore, the intention is that this null-routing should be permanent,
and should NOT be removed until all network blocks allocated to Burstnet
are returned for reallocation.
There remains, of course, the chance that Burstnet may attempt an
an eleventh-hour token gesture of some kind cynically designed to
forestall this action. The Internet community should not be taken in by
this subterfuge: the long and abusive past history of Burstnet clearly
indicates that they cannot and should not be trusted. Those kind-hearted
and well-meaning members of the community who might be inclined to do
otherwise should be reminded that Burstnet have already declined to
act when given numerous chances to do so, and thus any action they may
claim to be taking now is, at best, a sham designed to take advantage,
once again, of the good will and generosity of the community.
The community should not give them that opportunity.
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